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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology
  • Additive Manufacturing

Background:

  • Graphene oxide (GO) possesses unique properties suitable for advanced applications.
  • Achieving highly aligned and compacted GO structures via 3D printing remains a challenge.
  • Controlling structural uniformity during the drying of printed colloidal materials is difficult.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a universal strategy for 3D printing complex graphene oxide structures with enhanced alignment and compaction.
  • To investigate the role of constrained drying in achieving nanoscale capillary forces for GO manipulation.
  • To explore the potential of gradient porosity in GO structures for humidity-sensitive soft robotics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing a combination of direct ink writing (DIW) and constrained drying techniques.
  • Employing nanoscale capillary forces generated during water evaporation under confinement.
  • Controlling filament shrinkage to maintain macroscale structural uniformity.

Main Results:

  • Successfully achieved highly aligned and densely compacted GO structures.
  • Demonstrated significant shrinkage stress exceeding ~0.74 MPa, surpassing other colloidal systems.
  • Naturally formed a gradient of porosity across the thickness direction at corners due to constraint geometry.
  • Successfully 3D printed humidity-sensitive GO-based soft robotics.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed strategy offers a universal approach for 3D printing complex, high-performance GO structures.
  • Constrained drying is critical for inducing high GO compaction, alignment, and controlling shrinkage.
  • The ability to create gradient porosity opens new avenues for fabricating functional soft robotic devices.